
A Posit podcast for data science junkies, anomaly hunters, and those who play outside the confidence interval. Hosted by Michael Chow, with co-hosts Wes McKinney & Hadley Wickham.
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 22 | Founded | a year ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | Technology | |||

Paige Bailey is a developer relations engineering lead at Google DeepMind. She's a geophysicist-turned-AI-engineer who was once told by her professors that building open-source libraries was a waste of time. We talk about her path from planetary scie... more
Vincent Warmerdam has been the first full-time hire at a startup, a spacey punster who accidentally got himself a job, a bartender at an Amsterdam comedy theater, and a Dutch bike tour guide — and he'll tell you all of it was career development. Now ... more
Benn Stancil built Mode Analytics, spent a decade in the data trenches, and now writes some of the sharpest, funniest essays in the data world. On The Test Set, he talks about the cultural shift from Nate Silver to Rick Rubin why AI might kill the an... more
dbt Labs CEO Tristan Handy drops into The Test Set to map the fault lines between the data science world and the enterprise data world — and explain why analytics engineers are basically pissed-off data analysts who decided to organize the bookshelf.... more
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The show centers on data tooling, data platforms, and the evolving role of AI in data science, with frequent deep dives into open-source ecosystems, governance, and the practical realities of building and operating modern analytics stacks. Episodes mix founder and engineering leadership conversations with practitioner perspectives, covering topics like SQL-centric tooling, data transformations, AI-assisted coding, visualization and debugging, and the human aspects of running data teams. Notable threads include the rise of notebook-focused workflows, the tension between artisanal engineering and rapid AI-enabled development, and the ongoing evolution of the modern data stack, analytics engineering, and open-source tooling. The format often f... more
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